Speaker 1: On the beck Doll Cast, the questions asked if movies
Speaker 1: have women in them, are all their discussions just boyfriends
Speaker 1: and husbands, or do they have individualism? The patriarchy? Zef
Speaker 1: invest start changing it with the beck Del Cast. Hello,
Speaker 1: Becdel Cast listeners. Oh my god, I almost just like,
Speaker 1: for some reason, I was going to start singing that
Speaker 1: being the song. I was like, Okay, we've did our countdown.
Speaker 1: We're like one, two, three, four or five past. Oh wow,
Speaker 1: if we did that, that would be actually really fucked up.
Speaker 1: If we did that. Well, look, my voice, as you
Speaker 1: might be able to tell listeners, is it doesn't sound
Speaker 1: quite like myself. I'm a little sick at the moment. Sick.
Speaker 1: Oh sexy, what stop it? Sorry, you're gonna refort me
Speaker 1: to hrfort me to Jack O'Brien, I dare you? Um,
Speaker 1: what I'm saying is I don't know how that will
Speaker 1: affect my amazing, beautiful, perfect singing voice being sick. So
Speaker 1: it's true, So we better not. But what we are
Speaker 1: going to do today is answer some questions in a
Speaker 1: Q and I episode, which we've done in the past.
Speaker 1: It's kind of become a yearly tradition that we kick
Speaker 1: off the new year with a Q and I episode
Speaker 1: answering questions that our matrons have submitted. So thank you
Speaker 1: to all the matrons who submitted a question. Yeah, we're
Speaker 1: not going to have time to answer all of them
Speaker 1: because we're so popular and we've got so many questions.
Speaker 1: Sorry everybody, but but um we're gonna answer a few
Speaker 1: of them. And that's how we kick off. I love
Speaker 1: our Q and A episode. It's it's a time of traditions,
Speaker 1: you know. We we released our Grace Freud episode on
Speaker 1: the Santa Clauses. Is that Grace at the show last
Speaker 1: night and we were really reflecting on how we are
Speaker 1: going to be doing a fifth one of those episodes.
Speaker 1: It kind of like I can't believe the bone chilling
Speaker 1: in a way. Um, but a lot of traditions, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of like really hit you in the marrow of
Speaker 1: your existence. Sure. Well, as we discussed on that episode,
Speaker 1: we're not quite certain if this is a tradition or
Speaker 1: a curse. So it's true. I mean, but I do
Speaker 1: love um being cursed by things. It makes me happy.
Speaker 1: It's reassuring at times, that's true. Yeah, it reminds you
Speaker 1: that you're alive. It when you think about it. Doesn't
Speaker 1: it though? Doesn't it though? I? Yeah, yeah, all right, um, okay,
Speaker 1: shall we get into it? I was like, I guess
Speaker 1: we don't really need to tell people what the Bachtel
Speaker 1: test is today, Like it's this week, honey, look it up. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Plus we are going to be passing it so much
Speaker 1: in this by answering these questions, can we start with
Speaker 1: just like, I just want to know. I'm like, I
Speaker 1: just want to tell you something. I was like, how
Speaker 1: can I make this a part of the show. I
Speaker 1: just wanted to tell you something. I saw a ska
Speaker 1: band last night, A ska band. I skanked. It was awesome.
Speaker 1: It was so cool, and it was feminism. And you
Speaker 1: know why why the vast majority of the horn section
Speaker 1: were women? Oh no kidding. We had a woman on
Speaker 1: the trump bone. We had a woman on the trumpet.
Speaker 1: It was very thrilling. I am now really like, you know,
Speaker 1: much like many things, I feel like Scott Scott is
Speaker 1: going to make a comeback. You can really quote me
Speaker 1: on that. I saw a cool ska band last night
Speaker 1: and and and people were like, are you gonna skank
Speaker 1: or what? And I was like, is that the verb
Speaker 1: to wait, what does to skank mean? Oh, we're having
Speaker 1: a moment um, it's uh skank. It's like the dance
Speaker 1: well now I sound it's like the dance that Scott do. Um.
Speaker 1: It's sort of just like really performative, low kicking um,
Speaker 1: but you can do. You do it in the kind
Speaker 1: of like a pit situation and it's just like a
Speaker 1: bunch of friendly kicking and you know, the time registers
Speaker 1: doing what it's doing. Okay, So like the Charlie Brown dance,
Speaker 1: isn't that how the Peanuts characters. I don't know the
Speaker 1: SKA community would feel about you saying that, Caitlin, but
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm sure that's very reductive. But it's not
Speaker 1: unlike that. But it's more like intense. It's pretty fast,
Speaker 1: but it is just kind of like bad dancing. But
Speaker 1: like when people are into it, you're like, maybe this
Speaker 1: is good. And I and I did that bit that
Speaker 1: I have with the egg where I eat the egg familiar,
Speaker 1: thank you so much. Listeners remain in the dark. Um.
Speaker 1: But the guy brought up bassist in the SKA band,
Speaker 1: so they're also allies to me doing the egg bit.
Speaker 1: Ska is feminist and I just wanted to let you
Speaker 1: know that. Okay, I'm glad to hear it, and then
Speaker 1: can I tell you something? Yeah, of course, I don't
Speaker 1: know if I'll follow through on this, but I think
Speaker 1: in the new year I want to take a burlesque
Speaker 1: class and then get into burlesque. That's so, that's amazing.
Speaker 1: What if you did burlesque and I played the trombone,
Speaker 1: we could do Oh, I could play for you. That
Speaker 1: would be perfect. You could do rose do itpy cater burlesque,
Speaker 1: and then I would play my Heart Will go On
Speaker 1: on the trombone. Yes, that wouldn't be cursed. Wait, that's
Speaker 1: so amazing. Are there classes like locally? I guess I
Speaker 1: would imagine their I I think so, yeah, because I
Speaker 1: don't know what I'm doing. I don't know how to
Speaker 1: do burlesque, but it's an art for us, so I
Speaker 1: have to learn. And so if anyone has any tips
Speaker 1: on how to do burlesque or play the trombone, if
Speaker 1: anyone's trying to get rid of a trombone, um, I'm
Speaker 1: in the market for one. I feel like if I
Speaker 1: have of trombone like around, at some point, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have to pick it up. You know like it's acquiring
Speaker 1: the traumbone is half the battle, and then finding a
Speaker 1: good traumba to you if you're a local l a trombonus.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'll stick with this, but it
Speaker 1: was just so inspiring to um see so many women
Speaker 1: in the SKA band. Anyways, Okay, queues and as here
Speaker 1: we go, starting with a question from Alex. Hi. Alex asks,
Speaker 1: y'all sometimes talk about how watching movies for the show
Speaker 1: changes your perspective on them. Along similar lines, has doing
Speaker 1: the show changed your perspective on films in general? If so,
Speaker 1: in what ways? Oh? I would say for me, the
Speaker 1: show has made me realize that so few movies are
Speaker 1: ones that I could ever vouch for in terms of
Speaker 1: does this hold up when looking at it through an
Speaker 1: intersectional feminist lens? Because I think the average nipple skill
Speaker 1: writing we give out is like one pull out of five.
Speaker 1: Maybe too, I would say, maybe too, because we've we've
Speaker 1: been covering like better movies as the show went on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we used to be strictly, strictly a hater. This used
Speaker 1: to be strictly a hater zone, but grew up. But
Speaker 1: I still love movies. I still I always have, I
Speaker 1: always will. I don't think anything's ever gonna change that.
Speaker 1: So even though nearly every movie ever made is a
Speaker 1: disaster at least when it comes to intersexual feminism, it's
Speaker 1: still a medium that I adore so and I don't
Speaker 1: know what that says about me, but I'm always going
Speaker 1: to love movies. Beautiful Yeah for me, I like it
Speaker 1: definitely has changed my perspective, but even like a life,
Speaker 1: like even throughout the course of the show, it has
Speaker 1: changed my perspective in like more nuanced ways as things
Speaker 1: went on, because as as fun as it always will
Speaker 1: be to be like, yeah, this is just like not good.
Speaker 1: This is like a hateful use of media. But as
Speaker 1: time goes on, you know, and and we cover movies
Speaker 1: that have like more kind of shape, Like I guess,
Speaker 1: it's been interesting too. Now I feel like I approached
Speaker 1: like you, there's like different ways to approach the movie,
Speaker 1: and in some ways you can appreciate it more and
Speaker 1: in other ways, like it is not as fun of
Speaker 1: a watch, like I guess, I used to watch movies
Speaker 1: on one setting, but now I have like an appreciation
Speaker 1: for being able to like watch movies on more than
Speaker 1: one setting, and and had that be okay, you know,
Speaker 1: because it used to I feel like I used to
Speaker 1: be like movie good or movie bad, and it's like, well,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of different ways, and you know, everyone
Speaker 1: is their own person. Some movies are just like straight
Speaker 1: up sucking bad. But I've enjoyed kind of like training
Speaker 1: myself to like seek out context and like try to
Speaker 1: understand a little better if a movie is like challenging
Speaker 1: me and not just like clearly shitty or clearly amazing,
Speaker 1: to kind of like seek out more context and figure
Speaker 1: out like what time was this coming out in, Like
Speaker 1: where was the writer and the filmmaker coming from, and
Speaker 1: like how does that kind of And I feel like
Speaker 1: on our show that's kind of like skewed us in
Speaker 1: both directions towards a movie where there's like some movies
Speaker 1: were giving the benefit of the doubt, and then we
Speaker 1: learn more about it, we're like, oh no, we were
Speaker 1: being too nice, never again, and then other times, um
Speaker 1: the opposite, we're like, Okay, clearly this like missed, but
Speaker 1: the attempt was at least somewhat sincere or whatever. And
Speaker 1: I think it's also changed the way that I write,
Speaker 1: hopefully for the better. I think for the better. UM,
Speaker 1: and just like the way that I approach characters, and
Speaker 1: it's nice to kind of have the Bechdel track in
Speaker 1: your head to make sure that you're giving everyone the
Speaker 1: space they need in the story. That's my answer, Alex, Yes, M,
Speaker 1: thanks for asking it. Our next question comes from Catherine High. Catherine, UM,
Speaker 1: A lot of movies lately are experimenting with subverting tired
Speaker 1: old movie tropes. Are y'all noticing any of these recent
Speaker 1: tropes of versions that are becoming tropes of their own? Um?
Speaker 1: One comes to mind right away, which is like forced
Speaker 1: villain Redemption arc. Don't like it. Don't like I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't even know how that how much that has
Speaker 1: to do with feminism or intersectionality. I just don't like it.
Speaker 1: And I miss pushing the villain off of a cliff,
Speaker 1: which I know before, but actually it does connect to
Speaker 1: the episode that came out last week on the Santa Clauses,
Speaker 1: where I feel like it's become I think especially in
Speaker 1: Disney properties, but kind of across media in general, like
Speaker 1: it's become so normalized to be like I get started
Speaker 1: by coming from a sincere place. I'm trying to think of,
Speaker 1: like what big movie would have kicked this off, but
Speaker 1: like coming at a villain character with empathy, it might
Speaker 1: have been even like Wicked or something like that. Like
Speaker 1: coming at a classic villainous character with empathy and trying
Speaker 1: to understand things from their point of view. I think
Speaker 1: that that is like a sincere thing at the beginning,
Speaker 1: but now it's just like I mean, in the Santa Clauses,
Speaker 1: for example, you just have like a guy who's straight
Speaker 1: up a bad guy. The cow Penn character is like
Speaker 1: a Jeff Bezos villain, but the movie, but the movie
Speaker 1: that whatever Avatar length miniseries is like doing fucking Olympic
Speaker 1: gymnastics to try to like redeem him, because that's just
Speaker 1: like what you do now. And I feel like it
Speaker 1: can really like go the other way in a very
Speaker 1: uncomfortable way. I don't know, Like there's movies where it's
Speaker 1: super works, and then there's other movies where it just
Speaker 1: feels like, oh, this is what we do now. So
Speaker 1: I'm going to write a truly despicable horror character and
Speaker 1: then just have everyone forgive them at the end, even
Speaker 1: if they are like Jeff Bezos human rights abuse. Like
Speaker 1: You're like, but we don't need to forgive that guy.
Speaker 1: We just don't. There are some people we need to
Speaker 1: forgive in movies, and I like that, but others not
Speaker 1: as much. Right, I have complicated feelings about it because
Speaker 1: I think that it's important that depending on the person
Speaker 1: and their crimes, redemption like their crimes is a huge thing,
Speaker 1: because it's like, you know, right, like the society would
Speaker 1: be a better place. You just reminded me of what
Speaker 1: Searchharonan saying women and little the My my cold is
Speaker 1: affecting my cognitive functioning. But what I'm trying to say
Speaker 1: is redemption is possible for some people, and I, like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I want to like create space for
Speaker 1: people who, you know, if they if they do what
Speaker 1: they need to do to redeem themselves and their and
Speaker 1: their crimes aren't so heinous that they could possibly deserve redemption.
Speaker 1: Like that's a message that I think should be put
Speaker 1: out into aforementioned society, especially in kids media, because there's
Speaker 1: so many like tropes that villainized marginalized people in a
Speaker 1: way that is like absolutely fucked up and needs to
Speaker 1: be re examined. I think it's just like that as
Speaker 1: a trope that also applies to like people who are
Speaker 1: fucking capitalism ng the hell out, Like you're just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I struggle with it. Yeah, for sure, it's also kind
Speaker 1: of boring. Another trope I've noticed is movies and TV
Speaker 1: and media in general. Um, I mean, we have noticed
Speaker 1: more diverse casts in terms of race, gender, sexuality, and
Speaker 1: things like that, but because so much media is still
Speaker 1: made by rich, powerful white men, it's clear that this
Speaker 1: inclusion only is happening because these guys are tired of
Speaker 1: people challenging them. So there's there is like more diversity,
Speaker 1: but a lot of it isn't good or meaningful, or
Speaker 1: it's clear that they didn't consult anyone about these characters. Oftentimes,
Speaker 1: these characters are very flat, underdeveloped people who behave in
Speaker 1: ways that make no sense, and they are just there
Speaker 1: to like fill a quota more or less. Yeah, which
Speaker 1: is like like I like, arguably worse. Like I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know, like the yardstick they're really but like
Speaker 1: it's that's diabolical to do like higher talented people and
Speaker 1: then be like, but I'm just doing this so people
Speaker 1: leave me alone. It's like a fucking character do your job, man,
Speaker 1: for sure. So yeah, I also find that frustrating. I
Speaker 1: think we may be uh the gender swapped reboot maybe
Speaker 1: on its on its dying legs. I think we may
Speaker 1: really well and truly be done with it. Yes, what
Speaker 1: I hope happens. In addition to like what we always
Speaker 1: talk about with more movies, and I think in the
Speaker 1: time this show, like you're just saying the time the
Speaker 1: show's existed, there's been an increase in diverse storytelling and
Speaker 1: it's been getting better. But I also hope that it's
Speaker 1: like that makes way for more original storytelling to it
Speaker 1: feels like it's kind of on the upswing. We got
Speaker 1: her everything everywhere all at once, like we're chilling. It's good,
Speaker 1: but like, I hope that that kind of keeps moving. Also, unrelated,
Speaker 1: hope that, um that short movies come back. If short
Speaker 1: that would say that is a trope that every movie
Speaker 1: is three hours long now and I will allow it
Speaker 1: when it's r R R, which I'll talk about later,
Speaker 1: but why is every other movie so long? It's complicated
Speaker 1: stopping even when movies I like are long, I'm like,
Speaker 1: come on, um, Yeah, I hope that the eight seven
Speaker 1: minute movie makes come back. Wouldn't that be cool? And
Speaker 1: then then you could go to double features without like
Speaker 1: your fucking organs rupturing. It would be cool. Um without
Speaker 1: your intestines exploding. Call back to while you were sleeping, Oh,
Speaker 1: Matreon head over, Yanna, listen to Sandra Boogs Boss talking
Speaker 1: about his mother's organs exploding when she met his wife
Speaker 1: was an amazing time for writing. Um. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: that I'm trying to think of other I think those
Speaker 1: are maybe we'll think of more later. I know that
Speaker 1: there's a bunch that are kind of prevalent right now.
Speaker 1: I think it's like a lot of them boiled down
Speaker 1: to people attempting more inclusion and diversity in storytelling and
Speaker 1: not getting it quite right because they are like coming
Speaker 1: from places of extreme privilege and aren't bothering to consult
Speaker 1: or like hand the reins to someone else who can
Speaker 1: tell those stories more meaningfully. So agree anyway, Um, let's
Speaker 1: take a quick break and then come back for some
Speaker 1: more questions and we're back. Next question comes from Jacqueline
Speaker 1: asks do you feel like the era of Prestige TV
Speaker 1: slash limited anthology series does a better job of representing
Speaker 1: women and diverse voices on camera and do you have
Speaker 1: theories as to why or why not? For example, I
Speaker 1: think that the way streamers produce TV shows allow diverse
Speaker 1: creators to make their art, and having longer character arts
Speaker 1: in general seems to let women have more depth. These
Speaker 1: points both have their negative counterpoint um and Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think you're already touching on a lot of why this is.
Speaker 1: And I I don't watch a ton of TV. I'm
Speaker 1: definitely more of a movie person. But the nature of
Speaker 1: TV just generally does allow for more in depth character development. However,
Speaker 1: TV is still full of regressive tropes, maybe not as
Speaker 1: many today. I do think that a lot of media
Speaker 1: again is like trying to avoid that stuff, um, for
Speaker 1: better or worse. And I also think that because TV
Speaker 1: is ongoing, usually with multiple seasons, it gives creators and
Speaker 1: writers a chance to course correct as the series goes
Speaker 1: on m based on responses from fans usually, but it
Speaker 1: always comes down to who is behind the camera, who's
Speaker 1: in the writer's room, who's making these creative choices about characters. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I have like a lot. I don't. I have a
Speaker 1: lot of opinions on TV. I love TV. I've worked
Speaker 1: in TV for five years now, brag Binkie, but mostly
Speaker 1: in animation, but I feel like there's I agree with Jacqueline,
Speaker 1: there is more, I think more diversity in general. Then
Speaker 1: TV is also so fraud Like I think that there's
Speaker 1: a lot of amazing shows that are uh from women
Speaker 1: and people call her and queer people. There's there's simply
Speaker 1: just more of them than there are in movies. But
Speaker 1: because of how streaming works, it's so fraught, and I
Speaker 1: feel like sometimes things just go away and it feels
Speaker 1: like sometimes it's like, Okay, we'll give you one season,
Speaker 1: and like the same problems kind of exist where you know,
Speaker 1: like a show by you know, a notable white man,
Speaker 1: even if it kind of sucks for one season, they'll
Speaker 1: get a second season to find their voice and do
Speaker 1: all this stuff and blah blah blah. Where like in movies,
Speaker 1: and we talked about this a lot with with marginalised
Speaker 1: directors of like if you have one movie that doesn't
Speaker 1: do great financially or critically, you could be kind of done,
Speaker 1: and like that also bears out in TV quite a bit.
Speaker 1: But I do feel like there's a lot to be
Speaker 1: excited about, like you know, absolutely Broken Record being like
Speaker 1: Abbot elementary, but like for real abbot elementary, like it's
Speaker 1: the fucking cool Like, it's the funniest show on TV. Um,
Speaker 1: there's so many good shows at right now, but Okay,
Speaker 1: a show that sticks out to me is like The
Speaker 1: Gordita Chronicles, which was a really cute shell It was
Speaker 1: really good. It was on HBO Max. It is a
Speaker 1: Latin focused show and it's from Latin creators, but they
Speaker 1: were only given one season and not only was the
Speaker 1: show canceled, it's being pulled from HBO Max because of
Speaker 1: all this evil corporate ship that's going on right now.
Speaker 1: That makes it really really hard for because of how
Speaker 1: streaming works, like, it makes it so hard for like,
Speaker 1: even though there's more opportunities I think technically on paper
Speaker 1: in TV for um for marginalized creators than in movies,
Speaker 1: it's way easier to like short change and disappear that
Speaker 1: same media. Like why isn't Rutherford Falls getting a third
Speaker 1: fucking season? Are you joking? Like it's ridiculous and it
Speaker 1: makes me um piste off obviously, but there is so
Speaker 1: much to love about what's on TV right now, and
Speaker 1: I really I don't know and that, but but there's
Speaker 1: like sorry, I'm like, she's still going. There's also tropes
Speaker 1: within like Prestige TV right now, that's kind of exhausting
Speaker 1: to where it's like, you know, I know that a lot.
Speaker 1: I mean I watched some of them. I'm Succession fan
Speaker 1: number one. I've got my Waistar Roy co hat in
Speaker 1: the other room, don't you forget it. I had hot
Speaker 1: coffee this morning out of my we here for you
Speaker 1: mug um. Yeah. Like I but there are so many
Speaker 1: shows right now about rich people being bad and then
Speaker 1: but then the the underlying message is like capitalism bad.
Speaker 1: But isn't it kind of sick to watch? And like
Speaker 1: I think that's I don't know if that started with Succession,
Speaker 1: but like Succession is so fucking good that I feel
Speaker 1: like that is a huge trend right now. That kind
Speaker 1: of I feel like it's like, well, it's technically anti
Speaker 1: capitalist because we're making fun of rich people, so we
Speaker 1: should be able to just do this and then we
Speaker 1: could still have all white, rich traditionally hot casts and
Speaker 1: it's like, well you can do that, and sometimes I
Speaker 1: will watch it, but like you know, clocked, I see it. Um,
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think that that is. I think people
Speaker 1: should watch what we do in the Shadows and p
Speaker 1: Valley and succession, and that's what I have to say
Speaker 1: about it. Also stopped making really boring true crime adaptations.
Speaker 1: Enough enough, I should have played Elizabeth Holmes. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree, and that's my problem. All right, UM, Sorry
Speaker 1: that was I hope that answered the question. UM. Also animation,
Speaker 1: look at look at how animation is unionized. And when
Speaker 1: I say that, I mean it's not unionized. A fun
Speaker 1: fact about animation writers, they are not allowed in the
Speaker 1: w g A. Why we durable not that they're not allowed,
Speaker 1: but like very few animated shows are. I've been working
Speaker 1: in TV for five years and I'm not in the
Speaker 1: w g A because I work at animation ridiculous. So
Speaker 1: there's a lot of like evil shit afoot, and it's
Speaker 1: it's good to know about. Um if you're a media consumer,
Speaker 1: it's depressing to know about. But it's interesting in a way,
Speaker 1: especially if it doesn't affect your health insurance. So let's
Speaker 1: take another question. This one is from Deirdre, but we
Speaker 1: got similar questions from several different matrons. Are there any
Speaker 1: movies that you absolutely will not cover even if they
Speaker 1: are requested by listeners, whether it's because they are so bad,
Speaker 1: treat marginalized people, so poorly or wouldn't lead to much discussion.
Speaker 1: I want to know which titles are in the Bechtel
Speaker 1: cast trash bin Oh. I was thinking about this, and
Speaker 1: I don't know if there's any movie that is completely
Speaker 1: off limits to me. There are some that I think, wait, well, okay,
Speaker 1: so I will maybe protest and be like, I don't
Speaker 1: want to cover Hereditary But I said the same thing.
Speaker 1: But I said the same thing about Midsummer and we
Speaker 1: covered that on the Matreon. Yeah, I've definitely covered movies
Speaker 1: I wasn't stoked about, but like, I feel like that
Speaker 1: usually makes for a pretty interesting episode. It's true. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean there are definitely movies that I am not
Speaker 1: thrilled about or that I don't want to rewatch because
Speaker 1: they made me feel horrible the first time. But I
Speaker 1: think that that just means that, yeah, it'll inspire an
Speaker 1: interesting conversation and yeah, and it's our duty to cover it. Then.
Speaker 1: I actually I'm looking at the next question, which feels
Speaker 1: should we just roll in this next question because I
Speaker 1: feel like it's relevant. The next question is from Oliver.
Speaker 1: Is there still an embargo on covering Master of Disguise?
Speaker 1: I would say I don't really want to cover that
Speaker 1: movie at this point because it's like I feel like
Speaker 1: that's an I don't know, like how to category. I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess it's a lot of comedy movies honestly that
Speaker 1: are aging poorly. But like, I think that people developed
Speaker 1: an ironic appreciation for that movie, myself included back in
Speaker 1: the day. But when you watch it on becteal cast terms,
Speaker 1: it's like so unforgivably bad that like I don't even
Speaker 1: want to really give it air time. Like it's like
Speaker 1: Dana Carvey appears in Brown Face, Like it's a funked
Speaker 1: up movie. And I think that there are certain things
Speaker 1: that like can provoke interesting discussions, And then I feel
Speaker 1: like there's other movies that it's like, oh, we're just
Speaker 1: you know, kind of digging this movie up from the
Speaker 1: grave to point out how bad it is, which I
Speaker 1: feel like it's like not a productive something. Yeah, something
Speaker 1: like Master of Disguise, which has no legacy to speak of.
Speaker 1: It's not as though people are still like I ride
Speaker 1: or die for Master of Disguise. I think it's they're
Speaker 1: out there. I think it's important to have conversations about
Speaker 1: movies that include really awful stuff like just you know,
Speaker 1: horrible racism and homophobia and transphobia and things like that.
Speaker 1: But that I think is more important to do for
Speaker 1: movies that still are like in the cultural zeitgeist, the
Speaker 1: daily zeitgeist. Maybe it's yeah, where it doesn't make sense
Speaker 1: to do that for a movie that no one remembers,
Speaker 1: such as Master of Disguise, right, I mean, I guess
Speaker 1: I could be talked out of it because I know
Speaker 1: that like a lot of kids around our age saw
Speaker 1: that movie like and so it could be interesting to
Speaker 1: go back and be like, look at the like horrific
Speaker 1: slop we were forced to consume and say thank you.
Speaker 1: M Also, the name Pistachio disguise E is funny, so
Speaker 1: that's comedy. But I mean, I don't know that's an
Speaker 1: example of something that I would be I feel like
Speaker 1: we would. There are movies that we've had discussions before
Speaker 1: we've decided to come for it to be like is
Speaker 1: this like useful, is it funny? Like or what you know,
Speaker 1: figuring out where those lines are? Okay, pitch, what if
Speaker 1: we do a Matreon month it's Master of Disguise and
Speaker 1: the Master or Master and Commander. Wow, so many Masters?
Speaker 1: I can't think of any others but food for thought.
Speaker 1: And I think outside of that, the only movies that like.
Speaker 1: If there's like movies that you're like, why haven't they
Speaker 1: covered that? And it seems like we would, it's probably
Speaker 1: just because we know someone involved and like it. I
Speaker 1: just don't want I just don't want to feel weird.
Speaker 1: So if you're for wondering, that's likely. If it's a
Speaker 1: more recent movie, it's likely. Why. Yeah, again, we're very
Speaker 1: popular and we know so many people. Yes, the Madam's
Speaker 1: of Hollywood over here. Wow. Okay, so our next question
Speaker 1: comes from Katie asks. I loved your discussion in the
Speaker 1: Good Fellows episode of movies that you didn't care to
Speaker 1: watch because of the way people i e. Men talked
Speaker 1: to you about them, And I immediately thought of Fight Club,
Speaker 1: which I recently finally watched and hated. But would love
Speaker 1: to know what other movies fall into this category for
Speaker 1: you all, and what of those movies have you seen
Speaker 1: and think are definitely worth watching? I have some thoughts. Okay,
Speaker 1: this well, this is a little This is tricky for
Speaker 1: me because of my already extremely dude bro taste in movies,
Speaker 1: which is like, you don't need to. I feel like
Speaker 1: you've apologized for it in the past, where it's like
Speaker 1: you are who you argue that that's thank you. So
Speaker 1: point being, I've already seen many of the movies that
Speaker 1: men will try to insist that I need to see,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, bitch, I've already seen that, and I
Speaker 1: hate it. Um Because there are many that I have
Speaker 1: that I've seen and that I hate so deeply. We've
Speaker 1: covered some of them, but um Leon the Professional is
Speaker 1: one that jumps to mind. I hate it so much.
Speaker 1: Blade Runner, Yeah, I don't see the appeal the movie.
Speaker 1: Heat Men are like heat Rocks, and I'm like, it's
Speaker 1: so boring though a lot of like I mean, I
Speaker 1: think that there's like, I don't know, like good Fellas.
Speaker 1: I enjoyed that discussion because we were like good Fellas
Speaker 1: heads and we also liked The Godfather. If you're not
Speaker 1: on the fucking Matreon and you've been yelled at us
Speaker 1: for years, we liked both those damn movies. We like
Speaker 1: good Fellas better. Yeah, and we're right about that, but
Speaker 1: that is the correct answer. Yes, But yeah, I feel
Speaker 1: like there's like I'm trying to think of like a
Speaker 1: dude bro movie that I avoided for a long time
Speaker 1: that I'm on this list called men's gear dot Net. Uh,
Speaker 1: I think that is it is kind of an interesting
Speaker 1: thing where it's like fight club. I think we talked
Speaker 1: about this back in the day. I also like, I
Speaker 1: want to go back to that episode someday because I
Speaker 1: feel like there's things that like. Because we did it
Speaker 1: as a live show for some reason, we couldn't get
Speaker 1: to everything, and I feel like I had more nuanced thoughts,
Speaker 1: but was um kind of self editing because we have
Speaker 1: to do an entertaining live show on top of having
Speaker 1: a very complicated discussion, which is why our live shows
Speaker 1: pluging our tour are now basically fun popcorny movie they're
Speaker 1: goofy movies, such as a goofy movie. Um, I can't
Speaker 1: really think of any I think that, like honestly, all
Speaker 1: my opinions are right. So actually, actually, Big Lebowski was
Speaker 1: a movie that I avoided for a long time, and
Speaker 1: I uh, it's a classic. It's awesome. Um, and I
Speaker 1: resent that I was kept away from it. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I wrote down that one. I think. I mean film
Speaker 1: bros love the Cohen Brothers, and I think and I'm
Speaker 1: a big fan as well. I like they're the best many,
Speaker 1: if not most, of their films. Um, big Lebowski probably
Speaker 1: being my favorite of them. Um. I would say a
Speaker 1: couple of Tarantino movies are also ones that I think
Speaker 1: are worth watching if you avoid Tarantino because of film
Speaker 1: bros Telling you you gotta see their movies. Although honestly,
Speaker 1: I think it's mostly just Kill Bill. I really love
Speaker 1: Kill Bill. Yeah, I love kill but others I hate.
Speaker 1: I hated The Hateful Eight. I think that's a kind
Speaker 1: of common opinion, though I think that that's like people
Speaker 1: are like, that's his worst one. Yeah, So I'm not
Speaker 1: like saying anything profound here. Although I watched and I
Speaker 1: was on a plane, so I was I was the
Speaker 1: snake on the plane. But I I rewatched and Glorious
Speaker 1: Bastards I hadn't seen since high school. I like, that's
Speaker 1: a pretty good movie. I really liked that one. I
Speaker 1: think holds up. On the other hand, once upon a
Speaker 1: time in Hollywood, we didn't lose one of my least
Speaker 1: favorite movies. I saw that year, so I have to
Speaker 1: rewatch it. But I did not like it when it
Speaker 1: came out. Um, a couple of others I would say
Speaker 1: are worth watching Our Speed and Point Break, And while
Speaker 1: they are both copaganda, they are fun romps and Keanu
Speaker 1: Reeves is in them and he's a national treasure, so
Speaker 1: he and national treasure although no one kept us from
Speaker 1: no one kept us from National Treasure. Um. And then
Speaker 1: my final one that we talked about in Good Fellas,
Speaker 1: because I just am like, I guess I've always been
Speaker 1: a fan of Martin Scorsese movies, but now I'm like,
Speaker 1: maybe this could be my personality for a while. But
Speaker 1: Wolf of Wall Street one of my favorite movies ever.
Speaker 1: I feel like such a good capitalism critique. It's fun
Speaker 1: to watch and everyone's good in it. Um. But but um,
Speaker 1: you know, there's a certain contingency that take away the
Speaker 1: wrong message and spoil it for people. But I think
Speaker 1: it's um it's one of my favs, thing with American Psycho,
Speaker 1: which we discussed on that episode from a while back.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's it's always a matter of like, because
Speaker 1: some of these movies are satire or have biting commentary,
Speaker 1: but often the wrong message is taken away or the
Speaker 1: satire isn't very clear to begin with, so or it's
Speaker 1: like poorly adapted which I think is like I don't
Speaker 1: remember if we really talked about that in the fight
Speaker 1: Club episode, but I think that, yeah, like it kind
Speaker 1: of like pings my brain for like how Lolita has
Speaker 1: been adapted over the years, where like in the source material,
Speaker 1: I think the morality that the writer is trying to
Speaker 1: get across is very clear, but the adaptations lack that,
Speaker 1: and I feel like the fight Club kind of falls
Speaker 1: into that category in some ways. Yeah, I don't have
Speaker 1: nuance thoughts on it at the moment, but um, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'd be interested to kind of explore that idea more.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Katie, You've opened my mind, You've opened my heart.
Speaker 1: Two movies by men. Um, let's take another break and
Speaker 1: then come back and answer a few more questions. We
Speaker 1: are back, and I think it's time to answer some
Speaker 1: super fun questions. Yeah, fun ones. First ones from Melanie.
Speaker 1: What episode is gregg in from? I've listened to every episode.
Speaker 1: I can't remember the origin. Well, Melanie from YouTube dot
Speaker 1: com from we did not make it up? We did
Speaker 1: not make it up. It is from a YouTube video
Speaker 1: entitled It's Not Even. If you search the word gregnt,
Speaker 1: this video will come up. But the video is called
Speaker 1: how is Prangent Formed? Like? Can we listen to it
Speaker 1: together right now? It's so funny. So what it is?
Speaker 1: It's it's like a bunch of like frantically typed typo
Speaker 1: written um like answer websites like Cora and Yahoo Answers
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. It's just clearly like people who
Speaker 1: think that they are pregnant, frantically asking a question on
Speaker 1: the Internet and not checking their spelling, and it's just
Speaker 1: the urgency of these typos. It's very funny. It's very yes.
Speaker 1: So that's where gregnant is from. We first mention it
Speaker 1: on the episode on the Rock with Miles Gray. So
Speaker 1: it's because you and Miles knew about this video already
Speaker 1: and you were you were giggling about Gregnant, and I
Speaker 1: was like, what do you guys? Because I hadn't seen
Speaker 1: the video at that point, and so you were in
Speaker 1: on the joke. I was not. But now hopefully everyone's
Speaker 1: in on the joke. We encourage you to watch this
Speaker 1: YouTube video How is Prangent Formed? A k a. The
Speaker 1: Gregnant video? Kind of an Internet classic. It's fun and
Speaker 1: and now full fucking circle Miles and his partner there,
Speaker 1: So there you go. Wow, I know and should send
Speaker 1: I'm sorry and congregulations to them. We should really send
Speaker 1: a onesie that says Greg. Yes, absolutely, whatever comes out
Speaker 1: that baby is Greg exactly. Um. Our next question comes
Speaker 1: from Forest. I'm so excited I get to read this one. Okay,
Speaker 1: Forest says, bellow bellow for bellow to you two? Forest,
Speaker 1: who is the most shreky in character in Titanic? And whomp?
Speaker 1: Would the Minions hitch their banana wagon two on the Titanic?
Speaker 1: And then Forest says, sorry, if these questions have already
Speaker 1: been answered, which is I really hope that there's sincere
Speaker 1: in saying that, because it's not out of the question
Speaker 1: that this would have come up on this true, Well,
Speaker 1: it would have to be um Bruce, Okay, So I
Speaker 1: think the Minions would would work for Bruce is may
Speaker 1: or the iceberg. Okay, now we're talking because, as we've
Speaker 1: discussed in past Minions episodes, it's minions cannon to avoid
Speaker 1: historical monsters in historically recent memory that the that the
Speaker 1: minions were frozen. They were were not frozen, but they
Speaker 1: lived in the Arctic in a cave from like most
Speaker 1: of the nineteenth century until the nineteen sixties. To avoid
Speaker 1: a lot of horrible things. Um, they're like, well, the
Speaker 1: minions weren't involved with that because they were in the
Speaker 1: Arctic Circle at that time. They were busy with ice,
Speaker 1: so they get ice, they know ice. They ice each other.
Speaker 1: Probably remember when we used to ice each other and
Speaker 1: drink spear enough ices aristotles a simpler time. Wow, And
Speaker 1: that was also the Mike's Hard Lemonade era. It really was.
Speaker 1: We've gone through We've gone through so many phases of
Speaker 1: this show. We've grown up to. I know, we've really
Speaker 1: grown up together. I think it's nice. I'm drinking a
Speaker 1: saltzer right now. Are you joking? I'm drinking would never
Speaker 1: drink water. Oh my god, that's just because I'm sick.
Speaker 1: But I was like, I'm glad we are hydrating more healthfully.
Speaker 1: But okay, so I think I think the iceberg is
Speaker 1: an excellent answer, and let's go with that. Is May
Speaker 1: is a coward, and like the minions don't really vibe
Speaker 1: with that. They work for dinosaurs and grew. So I
Speaker 1: would say probably the iceberg is the right answer. As
Speaker 1: for Shreky in that here here's my thinking. Okay, I
Speaker 1: think cal Hockley gives off some intense lord far Quad
Speaker 1: vibes he is, Yes, yes, he is very far quad. Yes.
Speaker 1: But also I think Molly Brown it feels very shreky
Speaker 1: in to me. I feel like Fabrizio has some shreky
Speaker 1: in qualities due to his fake exaggerated accent. Um, and
Speaker 1: how shreki in is that Mike Meyer is certainly not Scottish,
Speaker 1: you know, certainly not, so there's that um. And then
Speaker 1: also I mean Rose Dowippycator, Fiona both kind of feisty redheads,
Speaker 1: you know, so that is a bit shreky in, very shreky.
Speaker 1: And I think Shrek and Fiona of different classes rich girl,
Speaker 1: poor guy shreky exactly makes you think holy crap. Basically,
Speaker 1: Shrek is an adaptation of Titanic. Are they ever on
Speaker 1: a boat? Is there a dragon and Titanic? Is there
Speaker 1: a donkey and Titanic? Yes? Yes and yes. Trying to
Speaker 1: bear this out, it's Pinocchio and Titanic. Um, I think
Speaker 1: there are enough. Yeah. I think Molly Brown definitely shreky
Speaker 1: and energy. I think the more exaggerated Titanic characters could
Speaker 1: very easily be in track, which is many of them.
Speaker 1: It's a very yeah. What's the what TV network. Their
Speaker 1: tagline is something like we know characters, or like you're
Speaker 1: mixing up TVs and t N t Kalin. It's characters welcome,
Speaker 1: that's TBS. We know drama, that's TNT. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: Oh good grief. Okay, so I guess I mean both
Speaker 1: apply to Titanic. Titanic nose drama and characters are welcome
Speaker 1: on the Titanic. We're holding two truths here. We've got
Speaker 1: TVs and TNT energy. Goodness, it's Titanic. I've a Titanic
Speaker 1: is on t ANT all the damn time, for sure.
Speaker 1: I would say that. Yeah, I would say Jack not
Speaker 1: very shreky in, but the dynamic between Jack and Rose
Speaker 1: has Shrek vibes to it. I feel like Rose do
Speaker 1: Itplicator is in a tower of the mind, I mean
Speaker 1: cerebral tower. She talks about how she's trapped in a
Speaker 1: metaphorical prison. The whole love triangle honestly is shreky in.
Speaker 1: Titanic is a very shreky in movie, is what we're
Speaker 1: concluding it is. It is, And the minions would work
Speaker 1: for the Iceberg, which is so funny. Oh can I
Speaker 1: read a text? I had a text exchange with my
Speaker 1: mom yesterday. That made me laugh so much because it's
Speaker 1: the end of the year. Uh and my my mom's
Speaker 1: second grade teacher reminder listeners. And I also, Minion piled
Speaker 1: her so hard this year that she's like, there's there's
Speaker 1: something going on in her head. It's not quite right.
Speaker 1: She had never seen a Minion movie. Took her to
Speaker 1: see Rise of gru in Orlando over the summer, and
Speaker 1: she's a new woman. She's got a new lease on life.
Speaker 1: So all her kids now are and she knows that
Speaker 1: Kevin's my faith. So she had her kids draw me
Speaker 1: some Christmas Kevin's here's one. Oh my gosh, that's so good.
Speaker 1: I know second graders know how to draw Kevin. He's
Speaker 1: their friend. But then she texted me, I told my
Speaker 1: kids this morning that you want to marry Kevin. Ha ha,
Speaker 1: And for the record, had not said, but I replied,
Speaker 1: I do. He's a compassionate leader. And she said exactly,
Speaker 1: We're Minion felt so hard. I love it, and her
Speaker 1: one of her students got her Kevin chia pet. But
Speaker 1: oh wait, do they have hippi have little strands of hair?
Speaker 1: But they're not hippie. Kevin planted Okay, We're gonna have
Speaker 1: to post some of these photos to them. It's so
Speaker 1: the minions, you know, Happy holidays to to them. Well,
Speaker 1: speaking of the minions, our next question, Oh yeah, that
Speaker 1: doesn't um take it away, Jamie. Oh, this is a
Speaker 1: question from Kelly favorite things you watched in two movies,
Speaker 1: TV docs, whatever? Also at least favorite. Um, Everything Everywhere
Speaker 1: is probably my favorite movie of the years. Same but
Speaker 1: but you got Rise of Group coming in hot right
Speaker 1: behind it. That's what I'm saying. That's why I saw
Speaker 1: Everything Everywhere three times in theaters. I saw a Group
Speaker 1: two times in theaters, but in two states, which I
Speaker 1: feel like isn't nothing. That's effort. It took. You got
Speaker 1: to put an effort for that, and I sawed it. Wait,
Speaker 1: I sawed at both city walks that's fucked up in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles and in Orlando. No kidding, I go to
Speaker 1: the Manon's house to watch that damn movie. Yeah. Those
Speaker 1: are my top two. Nice I will add to that,
Speaker 1: are are Are? Which kind of going back to the
Speaker 1: very first question, we answered as far as like perspective
Speaker 1: on film in general, if that has changed? Um, because
Speaker 1: the movie are are Are? While a flawless masterpiece. Um.
Speaker 1: If we were to cover it on the Backtel cast
Speaker 1: up well on the conversation about you know, the characterization
Speaker 1: of women in the movie, UM would be it's it's laughable,
Speaker 1: it's not very um And yet I love the movie
Speaker 1: so so much. It's complicated at the point being sometimes
Speaker 1: I just have to like take off my back dol
Speaker 1: goggles and I can still enjoy a movie. Sometimes I
Speaker 1: put them back on. You know, it's all about and honestly,
Speaker 1: like we've talked about this before, but if we're just
Speaker 1: like going to the movies to watch a movie, we
Speaker 1: don't necessary at least I don't want to speak for you, Jamie,
Speaker 1: but I don't necessarily have my back dol goggles on
Speaker 1: or not in the same way that I would when
Speaker 1: I'm like unless it's like egregious, Like if it's egregious,
Speaker 1: then exactly can't not. But yeah, no, I I agree
Speaker 1: sometimes you just I think, honestly, the most this is
Speaker 1: not one of my favorite movies of the year by
Speaker 1: a long shot, but one of my favorite pieces of
Speaker 1: media this year is the Harry Stytles quote. I feel
Speaker 1: like it's so useful. It's the movie feels like like
Speaker 1: a movie movie and sometimes and now to transition into
Speaker 1: Nicole kidman and we need that, all of all of us,
Speaker 1: that indescribable feeling we get when the lights begin to
Speaker 1: dim and we go somewhere. Oh damn again, it's okay.
Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna know the whole thing. Other movies
Speaker 1: I really liked this year, Turning Red and Pray, both bangers.
Speaker 1: Both have seen in multiple times. The Woman King I loved.
Speaker 1: I still haven't seen it. Oh you gotta see The
Speaker 1: Woman King. Another one of my favorites was Marcel the
Speaker 1: Shell with Shoes On. I still haven't seen it. I
Speaker 1: gotta say, you little movie. At the time of this recording,
Speaker 1: we have yet to see Puss in Boots, but I
Speaker 1: think it's going to one of my favorite movies of
Speaker 1: the year. And talk about a shreky In movie, Oh,
Speaker 1: I I mean harder to get shreky in the net
Speaker 1: unless it's Shrek five, which I can't fucking wait for.
Speaker 1: Uh there's I'm looking at my AMC history so a
Speaker 1: documentary I really loved this year, and I think it
Speaker 1: will probably. I think it's like it's like made the
Speaker 1: Oscars short lists and stuff. But it made me cry.
Speaker 1: We talked about it on the Matreon because there was
Speaker 1: a guy behind me who was really rude about it.
Speaker 1: But I was crying, cry, crying fire of love about
Speaker 1: two vulcanologists who are married and spoiler alert, they tell
Speaker 1: you in the trailer they die in a volcano. Um
Speaker 1: But it's a really beautiful story and I would recommend
Speaker 1: watching it. I saw Nope twice. I had a good
Speaker 1: time at Nope. And then also, this is not a
Speaker 1: movie from this year, but I saw ET in IMEX
Speaker 1: this year and it was I was crying so much.
Speaker 1: It's such a I feel like I didn't really have
Speaker 1: I think this is like a micro generational thing too,
Speaker 1: but like I didn't have a ton of excite ment
Speaker 1: and love for ET as a kid, but watching it
Speaker 1: as an adult, oh boy, I really love it and
Speaker 1: it it delivered. I also enjoyed Crimes of the Future
Speaker 1: because I love body horror. Um. Oh, I didn't see
Speaker 1: that one, but every time I hear the title of
Speaker 1: that movie, I'm reminded of another movie called Needle in
Speaker 1: a Time Stack. Do you remember this? Oh? Yes, we
Speaker 1: had a hell of it time with Needle and a
Speaker 1: Time Stack. Did that movie come out do we know.
Speaker 1: I think so, but it was a blip because I
Speaker 1: and and speaking of amazing incredible movies that are awesome
Speaker 1: and perfect, Moonfall was one of my favorite movies of
Speaker 1: last year. Not because it's good, because it wasn't. But
Speaker 1: if you just want to watch a I Frankenstein level
Speaker 1: terrible movie, Moonfall is one to watch. You know what
Speaker 1: I liked. I liked Scream five. I liked five Cream.
Speaker 1: I thought that was a fun one. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: spread the love around genres. Sure, Barbarian I thought was
Speaker 1: pretty fun. We had some notes for it, but I
Speaker 1: thought Morbarian was like a really yeah, like a really
Speaker 1: well done movie. I saw it twice. Enjoyed Bodies Bodies, Bodies.
Speaker 1: I enjoyed UM. I wasn't wild about X, but I
Speaker 1: did enjoy Pearl a lot. Sure, I didn't see either
Speaker 1: of them. I had had a fun time. I will
Speaker 1: see the third one. As far as TV, we mentioned
Speaker 1: a few shows the Rock and Roll Abbott, Elementary, Rutherford Falls,
Speaker 1: also Reservation Dogs. I'll add to that list. Um. One
Speaker 1: of my favorite shows that came out I think this
Speaker 1: year is We Are Lady Parts. Watched it people that
Speaker 1: it's so good. I highly recommend everyone check out We
Speaker 1: Are Lady Parts. It's about a group of women in
Speaker 1: the UK, all Muslim women who are in a punk
Speaker 1: band and it's awesome. I gotta watch it. I've been
Speaker 1: enjoying the sex lives of college girls. Oh, I gotta
Speaker 1: watch that's a fun one. Um, I haven't been. I'm
Speaker 1: kind of behind on TV right now, honestly, but there
Speaker 1: was one. I mean, I I always stay up on
Speaker 1: what we do in the Shadows. Always a classic, always delivers,
Speaker 1: and you know, just for no reason, Like, there's some
Speaker 1: really good TV shows coming out next year, and I'm
Speaker 1: just going to throw out a couple of titles. Um,
Speaker 1: the fourth season of Star Trek Lower Decks is supposed
Speaker 1: to be like really amazing, and it's actually a really
Speaker 1: good show. And if you are not into Star Trek
Speaker 1: or like don't have a working knowledge and you're nervous
Speaker 1: about getting into the Star Trek Expanded universe, it's kind
Speaker 1: of a great show to start with. It's an adult
Speaker 1: animated comedy. But I guess that that's all I can
Speaker 1: really say about it. But I just like the first
Speaker 1: few seasons are good, but I just like think that
Speaker 1: the fourth season, something's gonna change, it's gonna be really special.
Speaker 1: I want if it's because like a writer joins the
Speaker 1: writer's room and really like elevates the show the particular writer.
Speaker 1: I would not say that I did that, but I
Speaker 1: had a really good time. You should watch it and
Speaker 1: Teenage Us in Asia. I just like love that room
Speaker 1: so much, and it's created and written by majority women,
Speaker 1: and it's so fun and you'll have you'll have a
Speaker 1: great time. It's on I think it's on HBO Max
Speaker 1: because it's an adult swimshow. Wow. As far as my
Speaker 1: least favorite things of this year, No Offense Till thor
Speaker 1: Love and Thunder, but I thought that was a turd.
Speaker 1: I didn't see it. I didn't have fun at any
Speaker 1: Marvel movies this year. I was like, I'm excited for
Speaker 1: the New ant Man movie. I am genuinely excited for
Speaker 1: that because Michelle Fibers in it. Yeah, like the cast
Speaker 1: Rocks and Jeff Loveness wrote the movie and he's so funny,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I believe in the New ant Man movie.
Speaker 1: I didn't have a great year with Marvel movies this year.
Speaker 1: I love like Sam Ramy directed the best movie of
Speaker 1: all time Spider Man too, but doctor Strange just like
Speaker 1: I was confused, I was tired. I was like, oh god,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of space rocks like you know, also
Speaker 1: Jurassic World dominions. If they had just had the courage
Speaker 1: to do that. Yeah. Yeah, I was talking to Sarah
Speaker 1: Marshall was like, it's just like never ceases to amaze
Speaker 1: me that the last Jurassic Park movie is mainly about
Speaker 1: locusts and not dinosaurs. Wild. I didn't see it was
Speaker 1: such a turd um. Yeah, so those are the ones
Speaker 1: at the bottom of my list. I saw MORBs as
Speaker 1: a joke. It wasn't worth it. Jared Letto was like
Speaker 1: Jared Letto was genuinely a criminalis bad person And then
Speaker 1: a movie I was let down by from a director
Speaker 1: I like, and I'm excited for his nose for out too,
Speaker 1: but I didn't. I didn't like The Northman. It didn't
Speaker 1: do anything for me me either. I thought it was
Speaker 1: too violent. Whoa mom. That wasn't my I just thought
Speaker 1: it was like boring, and like Roberts is like not
Speaker 1: a boring filmmaker. So I was just kind of like
Speaker 1: they made the Vivich. He made the Vivich. He made
Speaker 1: the lighthouse. He makes like wild movies. So I don't know.
Speaker 1: And I enjoyed Bandtrees of Inn Sharon. I think I'm
Speaker 1: gonna think I'll say it a second time. Band Trees
Speaker 1: of Ed Sheeran. Yeah, that was one of the ones
Speaker 1: I liked. It made me want to go back to
Speaker 1: Ireland to visit my family. Oh my god, wait, I
Speaker 1: have a wild As we're winding down this episode, I
Speaker 1: have the weirdest story. I don't know if I told you,
Speaker 1: I tell you about the guy I met at the
Speaker 1: airport in Alaska who was like, we're related. No. So
Speaker 1: I was in the airport and I called up to
Speaker 1: the desk for some seating things. So they said my
Speaker 1: full name and I was walking back and then there
Speaker 1: was like an Irish guy and he was like, I
Speaker 1: can't do an Irish accent. I was about to go Australian.
Speaker 1: He was like, is your last name Loftis? I was
Speaker 1: like yeah, and he's like, my last name is Loftis
Speaker 1: and he's Irish and you know, I'm mostly Irish and
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, that's so wild. And he's like,
Speaker 1: you know, fifteen years older than me. And I was like, Oh,
Speaker 1: we're just having a conversation here. He's telling me about himself.
Speaker 1: I'm telling him about myself. The people at the desk,
Speaker 1: the Delta desk, they're loving it. They're like this is
Speaker 1: so interesting and like, yeah it is. This is actually awesome.
Speaker 1: And he's like, oh we should. Like he said like
Speaker 1: Loftus is a rare last name, which I have since checked.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's actually true. Um, but I was
Speaker 1: like he's from Ireland. I believe him, which is a
Speaker 1: weird instinct also, but I was just like he's like
Speaker 1: we might be distantly related, like give me your number
Speaker 1: and like I will blah blah blah blah blah. And
Speaker 1: then anyways, get on the plane. He immediately starts to
Speaker 1: texting me so much and then makes a joke about
Speaker 1: like what if we had sex, And I was like,
Speaker 1: never give a man your phone number, Jamie, wait, what
Speaker 1: what was the text? I received? And now like I
Speaker 1: haven't blocked his number because I love to choose violence.
Speaker 1: But he was going to Ireland and like I talked
Speaker 1: to my dad for a couple like literally two minutes
Speaker 1: and he's like, yeah, we're definitely not related to that guy.
Speaker 1: But glad you enjoyed the airport. So he was like, hey,
Speaker 1: we're probably related. Should we have sex? That really that
Speaker 1: is exactly what he was like, because okay, wait no,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna read the text. Um, this is a
Speaker 1: few texts down. It starts very friendly. He's like, so
Speaker 1: cool to meet you, blah blah blah. I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was really awesome, enjoy enjoy the flight. And he's like,
Speaker 1: there's a seat next to me. And I didn't reply um,
Speaker 1: but then he said, you have the culture in you.
Speaker 1: You are female version of me, less facial hair, and
Speaker 1: I was like, m texts are getting weird, but I
Speaker 1: reply just a little ha ha. The Loftiest brand is
Speaker 1: strong trying to keep things friendly. He replies, would make
Speaker 1: an awkward morning after waking up in same bed than
Speaker 1: asking names dot dot dot incest l O L. He
Speaker 1: immediately applies l O L again. He replies again, how
Speaker 1: cool to meet you. I'm so happy. It's like, okay,
Speaker 1: I bet his name isn't even loftist. He just like
Speaker 1: goes up to people and like uses that as a
Speaker 1: pickup line and then I don't. It's like an excuse
Speaker 1: to get numbers from women. I don't know. I mean
Speaker 1: he has been WhatsApp messaging me pictures of horses in
Speaker 1: Ireland for weeks. It's like it's the kind of thing
Speaker 1: where it's like, it's not that joke was I should
Speaker 1: have blocked him, but I am choosing violence. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I wonder how many pictures of horses I'm going to
Speaker 1: get um and then if there's a dick pick, then
Speaker 1: I'll block him. Okay. I wouldn't recommend this approach for
Speaker 1: literally anyone else or really myself, but when I saw
Speaker 1: I was like fancies in shared, which is like it
Speaker 1: isn't but I was like Irish accent. Anyways, it made
Speaker 1: me want to visit Ireland. And then meeting that guy
Speaker 1: maybe not want to visit Ireland. So I kind of
Speaker 1: been on this whole challenging journey with my homelands. What
Speaker 1: a roller coaster, you know. The final question, um a
Speaker 1: lot of people wanted to know was what movies are
Speaker 1: we most excited for coming out? In Barbie Barbie and
Speaker 1: and a lot of people mentioned Barbie. Um, my most
Speaker 1: anticipated is Spider Man Across the Spider Verse. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: very excited for that. Cocaine Bear is right there at
Speaker 1: the top of my list. Elizabeth Banks is about to
Speaker 1: sweep the Oscars. I'm excited for the new Magic Mike,
Speaker 1: Magic Mike's Last Ants. I am excited for Aunt Man.
Speaker 1: That'll be fun. Uh huh um mad Max the Wasteland.
Speaker 1: I believe it's slated to come out in Oh Wow.
Speaker 1: I an't excited for that Cocaine Bear. Oh speaking of
Speaker 1: scary bears, not Paddington. I don't know when Paddington three
Speaker 1: is coming out, and it better not be before I
Speaker 1: get cast in it. But Winnie the Pooh, Blood and Honey,
Speaker 1: I'm pretty excited for. I'm not excited for that. I
Speaker 1: can't even really describe why my body rejects that concept.
Speaker 1: I'm seeing it and you're like, fuck, you have seen Megan.
Speaker 1: We have to Oh my god, we will be seeing Megan.
Speaker 1: Wh'ere to start the year strong with Megan? I feel
Speaker 1: like that's actually a strong um madrean contender, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I want to see Wonka only because I think it's
Speaker 1: going to be horrible. What if Wonka is good? But
Speaker 1: like there's no way, but what if it's are we
Speaker 1: going to have to cover Willy Wonka and the Chocolate
Speaker 1: factory when that comes out, perhaps perhaps we will. And
Speaker 1: I'm excited for the new scream because I'm just like,
Speaker 1: I'm back, I'm back, I'm in six six cream, six cream. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they should just stylize there's five cream and others six
Speaker 1: crew and now let's add another cream on the pile
Speaker 1: while we're at it. I think those are the ones
Speaker 1: that I'm generally excited for it. But I am, I've
Speaker 1: really I'm I'm Barbie puilt, I'm really excited for Did
Speaker 1: you see the teaser trailer? I don't actually think I've
Speaker 1: seen it yet. I've seen a lot of the like
Speaker 1: onset photos the teaser trailer. I like, need to watch
Speaker 1: it again. But I'm like, oh, she's she's doing something here.
Speaker 1: It's not just Barbie and Ken. She's doing what is
Speaker 1: she up to? And then you're just like, you know,
Speaker 1: Searcher running women, women women. So I am, I'm really
Speaker 1: interested to see that. I'm sure there's ore's there's like
Speaker 1: independent releases that I am a d for Brady obviously,
Speaker 1: Oh my god. But yes, the Horny Jane Fonda movie, Yes,
Speaker 1: I will see that. Obviously, I always see the Horny
Speaker 1: I got, I got kicked out of book Club. I
Speaker 1: got funked up at book Club and I was cheering
Speaker 1: too much. The only time I've ever been kicked out
Speaker 1: of a movie. Yeah, you were there. You're not comfortable.
Speaker 1: Oh god, it's a simpler time. Yeah. Well, so that
Speaker 1: concludes our Q and a episode for this year. Thank
Speaker 1: you listeners for all your support, and I would hey, hey, hey,
Speaker 1: now hey, you asked us questions. I'd like to ask
Speaker 1: you a question, which is, what would you like to
Speaker 1: hear from us? What movies that we haven't already covered
Speaker 1: would you like us to cover? What suggestions might you
Speaker 1: have for guests that you'd like us to have on
Speaker 1: the show? Things like that. Yes, so, well, we can
Speaker 1: link to the request form in the description. We're always
Speaker 1: looking to to hear from you. We love you, and
Speaker 1: um I'm really looking forward to we have some we
Speaker 1: have some fun plans in store for you this year.
Speaker 1: We're starting the year with our tour um So, if
Speaker 1: you made it to the to the episode neilive on
Speaker 1: the West Coast, We've still got tickets available in dwindling numbers.
Speaker 1: I might add in Los Angeles on January we're doing
Speaker 1: a Goofy movie then We're going up to San Francisco
Speaker 1: on February first to do George of the Jungle, and
Speaker 1: then we're going up to Portland's Oregon on the second,
Speaker 1: doing two shows. One is The Goonies with Sarah Marshall,
Speaker 1: the second is a mystery show with a mystery guest.
Speaker 1: And then February five, we're gonna be up in Seattle,
Speaker 1: also doing the Goonies. So you're gonna want to go, Bibe,
Speaker 1: You're gonna want to go. And you can find tickets
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Speaker 1: every single month, plus access to the back catalog. And
Speaker 1: it's January, and that means only one thing. The Pinocchio Wars,
Speaker 1: Oh God covering look the two Pinocchios from Bockle the
Speaker 1: fuck in. It's gonna be bloody, it's gonna be brutal.
Speaker 1: Caitlin and my friendship might faull apart, might not survive
Speaker 1: because what you don't know is that Caitlin and I
Speaker 1: have both been drafted and not to the same side
Speaker 1: of the war. Wow, yeah, my goodness. Yeah, so stay
Speaker 1: tuned a bit of R R R energy, yeah in
Speaker 1: this war, but our friendship may say, hey, win the day.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. And if you haven't seen R R R,
Speaker 1: you gotta watch it. But anyway, thank you for listening
Speaker 1: and we'll be back next week with a regularly scheduled programming. Wait,
Speaker 1: let's on the back dock. Okay, um, as as as
Speaker 1: my husband Kevin would say, poopie, poopie below and poopie
Speaker 1: that's famous Beatles song. Okay, bye bye,